The Goods from Capture Photography Festival

Vancouver, BC | Capture Photography Festival is thrilled to announce our 2024 Billboard Public Art Commission featuring works by Karice Mitchell sited on five billboards across Vancouver and North Vancouver from March 8 – July 14, 2024.

becoming and unbecoming (working title), 2023
On view from March 21 – July 14
Sited on one billboard facing Cates Deck at The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver

I, 2024
On view March 29 – April 28
Sited on one billboard at E Cordova St and Campbell Ave, Vancouver

II, III
On view from March 8 – April 28
Sited on two billboards at Davie St and Bute St, Vancouver

IV
On view from March 8 – April 28
Sited on one billboard at Yukon St and W 8th Ave, Vancouver

Luxuriously feminine: black skin, white pearls, nails with polish, and satin in red and black. Karice Mitchell is a photo-based installation artist who uses found images from vintage Black erotica to further empower herself alongside Black femmes and lessen the omnipresence of White supremacy. Blending several visual methods such as cropping, reshooting, scanning, and distorting analogue and digital images, Mitchell leans into the possibilities of glitches – technology’s failure to fulfill its intended function – to highlight alternative ways of being. Mitchell pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium by exploring the interplay between visibility as a celebration and obscurity as a protective “iykyk” politic.

Originally commissioned as Capture’s 2024 signature public art project, Mitchell’s proposed image was denied without the possibility of resubmission. Working with Mitchell, we reconceptualized this project so that one image became a larger body of work, creating an omnipresence of Black femme existence.

Curated by Chelsea Yuill, Capture Photography Festival.

Presented in partnership with The Polygon and generously supported by Pattison Outdoor Billboards and Bruce Munro Wright.